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The Public Health Beat: What Is It

WEBIt was made by Dr. William Foege, a revered figure in American public health who was most recently senior advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. “At its base,” Foege …

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STAT's Helen Branswell On How COVID-19 Has Changed the …

WEBBranswell is a senior writer at STAT, a media company focused on health, medicine and science, where she covers infectious disease and global health. For the past 21 …

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Dr. Ashish Jha on Bracing for the Pandemic’s Third Year

WEBDr. Ashish Jha, the new White House Covid-19 coordinator, spoke with the Nieman Foundation on what to expect from the third year of the pandemic Elise Amendola/AP …

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An Antidote to the Minimization of the Long Covid Crisis

WEBThat’s why health and science journalists Betsy Ladyzhets and Miles Griffis co-founded The Sick Times, a digital publication that launched last November to “ …

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Three Years Later, Covid-19 Is Still a Health Threat. Journalism …

WEBEach Covid infection increases the risk of developing chronic health issues like diabetes — including in children — organ failure, stroke, heart conditions, kidney disease, and …

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Dr. Anthony Fauci: “You’ve Got to Evolve with the Science. Science …

WEBDr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical advisor to U.S. President Joe Biden, has been the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) …

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Why Some Journalists Are Centering Trauma-Informed Reporting

WEBFrom interviewing a family member of a crime victim to framing the plight of a migrant seeking asylum to writing about a person experiencing addiction or selecting a …

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A Lucky Break Leads To A Book About Covid Vaccines

WEBTo promote and elevate the standards of journalism. President Joe Biden greets Barney Graham, left, as he visits the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the National Institutes of …

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What the Media’s (Still) Getting Wrong About Covid

WEBIn the piece, Kendra argues that much of the media frames Covid stories from an ableist perspective, leaving those who are elderly, disabled, or have comorbidities as …

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5 Tips for Journalists Covering Mental and Behavioral Health

WEBHere are five tips that emerged at the workshop for navigating the complex terrain of mental health reporting: 1. Watch your language — and your tropes. Dr. …

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Corona Diaries: An Open-Source Platform of Personal Covid-19 …

WEBThat’s why members of the 2019 Nieman group—Fellows Uli Köppen and Fran Panetta, along with Tanja Proebstl and James Burke—have, with the help of developer and …

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What’s Old Is New Again

WEBView accompanying images » When I first started looking at historic photographs of an abandoned Ellis Island hospital, immigration was barely in the news. That was more …

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A successful investigative career and a vision led Jim Morris to …

WEBTasha Tuvango via DepositPhotos. J. im Morris was four decades into a successful investigative journalism career spotlighting environmental and labor issues.. …

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Medical Journalism Training

WEBThis is the only program in the country that balances study across the disciplines of journalism and public health. The one-year master’s program covers a broad spectrum …

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Reporting and Resilience: How Journalists Are Managing Their …

WEBA Kaiser Family Foundation poll conducted in March showed that 45% of American adults felt that the coronavirus was harming their mental health. White newsrooms can feel like …

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Jeneen Interlandi on "When My Crazy Father Actually Lost His Mind"

WEBWe’ve chosen Jeneen Interlandi’s recent New York Times magazine cover story about her father’s mental illness as our latest Notable Narrative.“When My Crazy …

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Learning To Be a Medical Journalist

WEBSo if you are a college student and want to be a medical journalist, take courses in the humanities (English, literature, foreign languages, history) as well as basic science …

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Covering Abortion as a Personal Health Care Issue, and Not Just a

WEBThe failure to cover abortion through the lens of health care is particularly acute now, in the midst of a historic pandemic. As the coronavirus crisis enveloped the …

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Esquire goes home with Philip Roth

WEBOur latest Notable Narrative turns cliché upside down to see what will fall out of its pockets. Maybe you can’t go home again, but Esquire’s Scott Raab wants to see what happens …

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A profile of police victim George Floyd also explored the health …

WEBIn Minneapolis, the physical and mental strain of a lifetime confronting racism surfaced in George Floyd’s final years. By Robert Samuels. Washington Post, Oct. 22, …

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